Pages
Not only do pages add interactivity to your visualization, but they're also the only way to create animations in Tableau. You may have never seen a Tableau visualization with animations for a simple reason: Tableau Server and Tableau Public can't display the animations yet. But what exactly are pages?
Note
Pages are very rarely used because animations don't work when you publish your work. For this reason, we won't go into too much detail about this functionality.
Pages act as a single value filter. Each value is a page, and you can click on the Play button to go through all the pages and create an animation.
There are a few things to bear in mind if you want to use pages, as follows:
- You can only use Discrete fields in pages.
- When you put a field in pages, the pages card, displayed in the following screenshot, automatically opens:
Here are some things you need to know about the page card:
- The first line displays the current page, and the arrows allow you to go to the...